We need to balance our team better from here out. The dead eye shooter concept is too iffy because they usually don't shoot the ball well. We are a poor free throw team and really weak inside. Hard to watch. We have overachieved this year.

“One of their bigs was just grabbing our players out in the open on a ball screen defense and I just pointed it out,” Painter said. “I said ‘He has both his hands around him.’ (the official) stares right at it and ignores him so, I can’t repeat what I said to him.”

Burke's legs are dead. His jumpers are all short and he looks gassed whenever they show a closeup, which is what happens when you play 45 minutes less than 24 hours before another game. We don't have much of a chance unless he finds his second wind at halftime.

you dickhead. I'm sure Coach Beilein wants us to go inside. Shot selection has been bad but fans like you ANSOLUTELY make me sick. Did you not go through the RR era? Get on board or jump the hell off! You piece of shit.

What is up with Novak lately.....No leadership, cant shoot, not taking charges.....Burke is bailing Michigan out for the past 4 games. If Novak plays like this in the Tourny, then we would get beat in the first round. LEADERSHIP is what im looking for.

hi guys, its not like this HASNT happened before. yesterday we scored 20 pts at half. lets all chill out a bit - this team is going to make a run and pull it below 10. they may not win, but they're not going to get run off the court.

If they can come out of the half with a few early threes from Burke and THJ, I don't think it's out of the question to see us build enough momentum to make this a game. Still, with the way Sullinger is playing, it'll be tough to see us winning this.

15-4 rally to start the half. We'll get within 4 with 7 min to go, but we'll be down 7 with 4 min to go. Novak will hit a huge 3 to be down 4. I can't say how the final 3:30 plays out, other than GO BLUE!

I mean come on 13 points aint shit. We got Sullinger his 2nd foul, we only shot 25% and hit what 2-12 from 3 point land? All that went wrong and it is only 13. we can come back. If we hit 6 plus 3 pointers in the 2nd half I know it will be a game. Let's go blue

Is it really good game planning to have J.Mo setting high screens on offense the majority of the time? What the hell is he going to do with the ball from the top of the arc? Once in a blue moon, he cuts through the key to open a passing lane. Otherwise it's like watching an oak tree take up space where a guard or SF should be.

But OSU's players are tired too. Thad Matta is notorious for only playing 7-8 players extensively.

Craft, Buford, and Thomas each played 38 minutes in their game against Purdue yesterday. And Sullinger played 36 minutes. Smith played 26 and Sam Thompson played 13. No other OSU player payed more than 3 minutes.

There have been nights in which he has had big moments, but just like today, I've seen it happen all too often. Jordan Morgan is playing like the Steven Threet of UM basketball, failing miserably while we wait for someone in next years recruiting class to replace him.

Don't understand why we hedge their guards so hard with a big on the perimeter. All they are doing is lobbing it down low and Sullinger has a 1 on 1 with the help defender (novak, THJR). It's really hurting us and their guards aren't great outside shooters.

Is Morgan playing awful, or is it terrible scheme? Morgan was constantly setting high screens for Burke, which seemed to take Morgan out of position to do anything useful. I don't understand that. Hardaway could set a high screen for Burke. Novak could set a high screen for Burke. Worst case scenario, you have an athletic SF or guard up high, and Morgan down low where he should be.

Morgan can't make fast cuts, so I don't see any logic to having him screen the ball high. Maybe if he were actually doing an amazing job at it, but he's not. AT ALL. Burke is getting hounded up there.

Looking forward to the hockey game tonight and the Selection Show tomorrow. If we do some damage in the tournament, no one will remember this game, nor will they when that banner goes up into the rafters in Crisler.

If we don't hit our threes, don't hit our free throws, and don't rebound at all. When we have no play down low they can focus on making all of our deep shots hard. This game IMO is exactly why we'll need size in the future to do anything in the tourny. Hopefully this game doesn't hurt the mentality of the team in the next week.

I don't think OSU needs to score again to win this. We'll be lucky to get to 44. The team is used to Trey carrying them, so they're just standing around. Unfortunately, he's playing just as poorly as everyone else.

I can't tell if the second half is worse or the first half was worse. They're both horrendous, that's a given. But which is worse? I'm going to say the second half because I had a small amount of hope that someone would step the fuck up. Seeing them wilt is depressing. There isn't one redeeming thing about this game.

Everything we are getting is forced. Hard away is in that zone he gets in where everything is forced. We are seeing Burke play like a freshman for almost the 1st time this year. At what point do we just give Zack the green light to pull when he sees any kind of a window? He is the only shooter with any touch at the moment. It kills me to see us play so flat, and I have too much pride to give into the loser mentality of " we could use the rest" . Hopefully we take this opportunity to learn and still get better, while it isn't ending our season. /vent over

Not a good performance but let's try to keep things in perspective. One game doesn't exemplify what this team is and has been all year. They still have a very good chance to be a sweet 16 team. And I mean c'mon, Ohio was hitting some shots that don't fall 9/10 times. They just got all the bounces this game.

I am not sure why everyone seems so angry and shocked about this. Yes I wanted UM to win and yes I think we could have won this game, but I dont think anyone would argue that Ohio has considerably more talent than us. It's just a fact. That doesn't mean we cant beat them but it does mean that if they blow us out on an off night, it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone.

It is what it is. The talent gap will get smaller next year and we'll still have the coach who gets Michigan to play better than the sum of it's talent. I for one am satisfied with getting a share of the Big Ten title during a season that supposedly was one of the toughest Big Ten's in recent memory.

The only thing that really disapoints me about this game is that Michigan never really made any sort of run in this game to get with in 10 or something. Ohio just trouced us from start to finish. You can blame it on being tired, just not having a good day or Ohio being extremely motivated, whatever. But there should have at least one little run today that we can smile about.

Still, it was borderline unbearable to hear the CBS coverage speak as if Michigan had no business winning a share of the B1G title. I realize we got housed in this game, but there was zero consciousness on the part of the announcers that we beat OSU a few weeks ago, and that MSU split with us as well, as if they hadn't watched us once all year.

Infuriating. What's worse is that our single game performance did nothing to shake their foregone conclusion.

I love whoever is marking anything remotely negative as trolling. Guess what...you can be a diehard fan and be disappointed in the game without being a troll. It's called being realistic. It's not like people are flaming the players or coaches.

I also love that OSU is still shooting early in the shot clock and taking threes. Classy move, guys!